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With all of the talk and debate about the refugee screening process, I thought it might be helpful to post a State Department presentation about the details of the process and then you can decide for yourself if it’s thorough enough. This is the text of the statement, which is also copied below if you…

The dilemma of whether or not to allow Syrian refugees to receive asylum in the United States is indeed a moral one. In 1939, shortly before the start of World War II, nearly 1,000 European Jews and others boarded a passenger ship named the St. Louis in order to flee persecution by Adolf Hitler and his…

When I had my surgery to remove 80% of my tongue I knew I would have trouble communicating so I asked my brother Tom to make some index cards with comments and questions and as usual he went above and beyond and included his great sense of humor by adding some mildly risqué cards for…

When the facts are not on your side in a debate, one very strong way to divert your opponent and win the argument is to use the ad misericordiam diversion, better known as an appeal to pity or sympathy. Prior to his executive order to temporarily grant legal status to about 4-5 million people in…